Published: March 02, 2019
Adelaide Town Hall
The Australian musical laureate’s latest collaboration takes poetical odes to winged creatures by the likes of Yeats and Adamson and puts them to music
Paul Kelly melds literature and music like no other Australian musician.
His lyrics have been collected in the memoir form in his book How to Make Gravy, he turned Shakespeare’s sonnets into the song cycle, Seven Sonnets & A Song and in 2012’s Conversations with Ghosts he set the poems of Alfred Tennyson, WB Yeats, Kenneth Slessor and Les Murray, to music.
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